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packbat · 11mo

Do either of y'all have any, like, specific comfort media y'all wanna talk about? We read a lot of fantasy and science fiction growing up, and some of it has been kind of nice to revisit.

We could basically always talk about Sheep in the Big City? It was in the Cartoon-Cartoon era of Cartoon Network. So like, the premise is that a vague arm of the military needs to capture one, specific sheep to power a sheep-powered ray gun, so Sheep runs away from the farm to hide amongst the mass of people in The Big City. The show knows that that is goofy as shit and does not care. There isn't much of a continuity, each episode is General Specific and Private Public [all the military names are like that, the scripts delight in it] attempting to capture Sheep like a Looney Tunes villain and failing, somehow, but the show uses that weird framework to deliver morals about like, feeling isolated and dealing with bigotry and setting boundaries. The Sheep parts of the show altogether have a lot to say about being Different in a place that doesn't prize Difference, and we wouldn't have been able to spell out at 14 why that felt important to us but at about 28 we were really glad it had been.

Its also WILDLY funny, to us. The parts of the show that aren't Sheep are mostly fake commercials or movie trailers or weird variety acts, that lean heavily on wordplay and 4th wall shenanigans because Sheep in the Big City cannot, at ANY MOMENT let you forget that it is a television show, and we eat that shit up.

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